The Dorial Green-Beckham Conundrum: Should Teams Want the Big Wideout?
6'5'', 237-pound wide receivers with 4.49 speed don’t come around often.
Scouts, NFL teams, and analysts are drawn to measurables, and we know a wide receivers size -- particularly their weight -- correlates to touchdowns. But projecting a prospects' potential solely on height and weight is too easy of a proposition, and doesn't exactly live in reality. There are other variables to factor: production, metrics, what you see on the field and what you see off it all mesh together to create an assessment of a prospect's overall potential in the NFL.
What you want to find is where a prospect excels at most, or something that sets him apart from others. For Dorial Green-Beckham, it’s his size.
But as noted before, size alone rarely means success. Sure, he’s already going to be taller and heavier than every defensive back that covers him, but does Green-Beckham use his size to his advantage? Did he produce in college? Adjusting for height and weight, how athletic is he?
Notwithstanding major off-the-field issues that leads to the overall conundrum that we’ll discuss at the end, let’s take all of these variables and see how one of the most enamoring prospects in the 2015 draft projects at the next level.
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